Senior Director, Supply Chain

Job description

Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life.

Our Global Supply Chain team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with cardiovascular disease.

You’ll partner cross-functionally with manufacturing operations and sales teams, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while developing your knowledge of the medical device industry.

Whether your work includes strategic inventory planning, labeling, warehouse management, material handling, or any of our other supply chain opportunities, you will be making a meaningful contribution to our team and to patients all over the world.



This role is responsible for developing short- and long-term strategic planning of distribution network in assigned region, ensuring delivery of organizational goals and growth plans are achieved.

This role will also lead the distribution centers' strategy across the region, driving continuous improvement and implementing innovative methods to optimize distribution channels, maintaining high level of compliance, operational excellence and high quality service to clients.



**How you’ll make an impact:**



+ Develop, plan and lead regional logistics and distribution strategy in alignment with growth plans, delivering on cost, quality and service objectives across transportation, carrier network, supply channels, and distribution centers.

+ Research and identify best practices and trends, prioritize and select appropriate projects, lead in identifying risks, developing complex mitigation strategies, defining best practices and alternative solutions, driving standardization and controls, and resolving issues in collaboration with cross-functional and/or corporate teams.

+ Direct team members and/or provide direction to matrix teams in the execution of the distribution network design and plans including identifying strategic providers, implementing sound supplier relationships and management processes, ensuring providers deliver on agreed commitments in partnership with cross functional stakeholders (e.g., Corporate Logistics) for issuance and/or implementation of regional and global contracts.

+ Develop a robust distribution management capability in the region, including mentoring and developing others as part of GSC talent development, succession planning and growth strategies.

+ Establish measure and maintain standards and expectations for on-time delivery between customers, carriers and distribution centers.

+ Establish strong partnership and act as liaison between stakeholders (e.g., Commercial teams, GPS&L and Supplier Quality organizations, and distribution centers’ partners) while ensuring new product readiness indicators are in place and effective.

+ Responsible for driving performance improvements in the key indicators for distribution and/or end to end supply chain operations optimization and service levels, while meeting cost targets and establishing effective measures and standards.

+ Develop and lead the implementation of strategies to ensure business continuity.

Identify, escalate, and develop plans to mitigate/eliminate risks, direct and communicate such strategies in collaboration with internal parties.

+ Drive a value stream mindset and culture of continuous improvement based on lean and Six Sigma principle

+ Serve as core partner to senior leaders in Business Units, Functional Groups, Regions and IT

+ Other Project identified to support the Emerging market Growth



**What you’ll need (Required):**



+ Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management or relevant field with extensive experience in logistics

+ Experience with progressive responsibilities in Supply Chain network or manufacturing

+ Strong ability to establish strategic partnerships with Logistics Service Providers in driving delivery excellence and fulfilments

+ Proven expertise in warehouse and distribution technologies (e.g., RFID, WMS, Bar Coding)

+ Proficient in both Microsoft Office Suite and related systems including JDE, Advanced Planning Systems working with Demand Flow methodology



**What else we look for (Preferred):**



+ Proven successful project management leadership skills

+ Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills including high discretion/judgment in decision making

+ Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives

+ Expert understanding of global supply chain logistic and distribution methods, modes, third party dependencies and principles while looking beyond existing methodologies and own discipline to define and resolve complex problems

+ Expert understanding of related aspects of logistics processes and/or systems

+ Expert knowledge of financial mechanism that relates to logistics

+ Expert understanding of planning concepts and requirements (e.g., CRP (Capacity Requirement Planning), MRP (Material Requirements Plan), Production Scheduling and Sequencing

+ Demonstrated ability to direct teams and provide coaching and feedback, including responsibility for all employee actions including hire/fire authority and partnering with HR on all aspects of employee relations

+ Ability to develop and integrate metrics into the projects and operations that clearly demonstrate the value of planning, purchasing, and logistics to the business

+ Strict attention to detail

+ Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization

+ Ability to work and excel within a fast paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment

+ Provide leadership and direction to large cross-functional teams to successfully implement global enterprise systems and related solutions

+ Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control

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